Had the eufy Cam 2c Pro Set with 3 Cams and Homebase2 Years ago. Great Product, good Software and App. Connected to QNAP and Synology recorded the RTSP Stream. Would buy it again if needed.
I felt for that camera and I regret it even if I haven't paid full price. It claims to be "Pro", while it's not. For me first sign of it is that you can't connect PoE Ethernet to it to keep it powered and transfers fast. I'm astounded by the fact the Home Base from Eufy is Ethernet connected to the router, but these expensive cameras cannot. I don't get any charge in daylight, what means that solar panel in them is actually pretty poor. The camera is supposedly 4K resolution, but compression is the killer - there's no way to recognize faces of people recorded farther than 5 meters away. What's the sense of paying for device with high resolution sensor, if it works only on 2.5 GHz WiFi with tamed bandwidth to transfer the videos, so compression has to be very lossy. Wide angle view on the phone looks really good, but zooming in to get details show how bad and noisy the whole things is. I made mistake and checked that after falling for promotion eufy made at premiere, but Reolink has cameras with colour day like night vision and they can be connected via Ethernet for full bandwidth and they're like half price of S3 Pro. I need to check one finally and do proper quality comparison of recordings.
I own the Homebase 3 and quite a few Eufy cameras. In use, the responsiveness of the “Feed” is uneven. Fifty percent of the time, it gets stuck on “Establishing secure video channel” before the system gives me an “unable to play live video” error. This error happened with my Eero wifi setup and my new Ubiquiti gear. If I can’t count on quickly and reliably viewing the urgent notification that someone is in the backyard (when they shouldn’t be) the entire ecosystem is USELESS to me. I am patiently waiting for the Eufy cameras to die so I can buy new cameras. I don’t know what they will be replaced with yet.
How in the heck can you actually recommend Eufy? Tech is cool, but if you cannot trust the company to safeguard what is arguably one of the most private pieces of data in a home, then why not just put a public webcam out there for all to see? Sorry, but the way they handled their cameras in the beginning and waiting until the absolute last moment to address the security issues and actually be truthful about it, it makes me wonder what are you all smoking? Eufy built a platform that was not secure and only addressed it when the tech press and eventually mainstream press called them out on it. How on Earth can you all so willingly trust this platform or a company that was so negligent in the security from the beginning? How? Money? Free Products? What is your privacy worth to you?
i own the prior version (330) and it did not last 12 months. lots of frustration to get paired after unknown failure, and poor support (no return/exchange). would not buy again.
Sorry to hear that man. The rig I reviewed in the last vid is at a friend's place and seemingly running fine (asked him specifically, and in painful detail, before taking on this review decision). Will investigate further
Severely underrated and helpful channel. Thanks for the video!
Had the eufy Cam 2c Pro Set with 3 Cams and Homebase2 Years ago. Great Product, good Software and App. Connected to QNAP and Synology recorded the RTSP Stream. Would buy it again if needed.
In depth review - well done. Thank you!
Will they link with unifi protect?
how strong is the wifi to the base? if I have one of these mounted on my garage and my base station is on the other side of the house, will I be ok?
any chance we can get a video on good NAS hardware for the RetroNAS OS?
I felt for that camera and I regret it even if I haven't paid full price. It claims to be "Pro", while it's not. For me first sign of it is that you can't connect PoE Ethernet to it to keep it powered and transfers fast. I'm astounded by the fact the Home Base from Eufy is Ethernet connected to the router, but these expensive cameras cannot. I don't get any charge in daylight, what means that solar panel in them is actually pretty poor.
The camera is supposedly 4K resolution, but compression is the killer - there's no way to recognize faces of people recorded farther than 5 meters away. What's the sense of paying for device with high resolution sensor, if it works only on 2.5 GHz WiFi with tamed bandwidth to transfer the videos, so compression has to be very lossy. Wide angle view on the phone looks really good, but zooming in to get details show how bad and noisy the whole things is.
I made mistake and checked that after falling for promotion eufy made at premiere, but Reolink has cameras with colour day like night vision and they can be connected via Ethernet for full bandwidth and they're like half price of S3 Pro. I need to check one finally and do proper quality comparison of recordings.
Wish these were available when I recently bought my existing cameras. Do a vod with these hooked up with a Qnap NAS if possible please
Reolink still my go-to.
I own the Homebase 3 and quite a few Eufy cameras.
In use, the responsiveness of the “Feed” is uneven. Fifty percent of the time, it gets stuck on “Establishing secure video channel” before the system gives me an “unable to play live video” error.
This error happened with my Eero wifi setup and my new Ubiquiti gear.
If I can’t count on quickly and reliably viewing the urgent notification that someone is in the backyard (when they shouldn’t be) the entire ecosystem is USELESS to me.
I am patiently waiting for the Eufy cameras to die so I can buy new cameras.
I don’t know what they will be replaced with yet.
How in the heck can you actually recommend Eufy? Tech is cool, but if you cannot trust the company to safeguard what is arguably one of the most private pieces of data in a home, then why not just put a public webcam out there for all to see? Sorry, but the way they handled their cameras in the beginning and waiting until the absolute last moment to address the security issues and actually be truthful about it, it makes me wonder what are you all smoking? Eufy built a platform that was not secure and only addressed it when the tech press and eventually mainstream press called them out on it. How on Earth can you all so willingly trust this platform or a company that was so negligent in the security from the beginning? How? Money? Free Products? What is your privacy worth to you?
i own the prior version (330) and it did not last 12 months. lots of frustration to get paired after unknown failure, and poor support (no return/exchange). would not buy again.
Sorry to hear that man. The rig I reviewed in the last vid is at a friend's place and seemingly running fine (asked him specifically, and in painful detail, before taking on this review decision). Will investigate further
Reolink > Eufy
No ONVIF.. missed opportunity
Way overpriced for what it is